Grimm, this sounds like the Flower Fairy series by Cicely Mary Barker dating back to the 1920's. Beautifully illustrated with accurate botanical drawings and a 'fairy' in each one. I had a copy of Flower Fairies of the Trees as a child and although I wasn't very interested in the verses I loved the pictures. There is a website dedicated to Barker's life and work, the one below is just of her illustrations. Here is a link that might be useful: Flower Fairies

You can buy seeds for Gaillardia pulchella almost anywhere seeds are sold. You'll find a much better selection of varieties, of which there are several, on line. Gaillardia prefers full sun, summer heat, and very well drained soil. It's a perennial but in your location, it needs to be grown as an annual. I know it as a coastal dune plant, where it readily becomes naturalized in pretty inhospitable sites.

socks, you can keep a library (Overdrive) sourced Kindle book and keep reading it on a Kindle reader for months and months IF (and only if) you turn off your data signal (whether Wifi or through a cell carrier). It's through that sign on that the Amazon site is contacted and the deadlines for library downloads are enforced and overdue ones get deleted. How you make that work is by downloading several books at a time, read them all with the data signal off, then connect and download several more. Repeat as desired. chisue, while there are Overdrive apps for different tablets and PCs, you can only check out library books from libraries where you have an account. But different libraries have different/nonidentical Overdrive subscriptions so you're likely to find books on the Hawaii Library Overdrive site that may not be available from your home library and vice versa. You can download Overdrive material from anywhere. Several of my kids have spent time living abroad and they were able to continue to download Overdrive-sourced Kindle and audio books using their US library accounts.

Good looking tree in bloom,in leaf,or bare- nice sculptural look. Like a Pseudobombax- Pachyra type tree. Are you growing that? How much cold could it take?